Why hurry ?

On facing some looming deadlines, a wise consultant once remarked, "aaj karo so kal, kal karo jo, so woh karo parso, kya jaldi hain yaaro, kab jeena hain barso?"
Suspicious English Translation: "Why Hurry when there is a lifetime to worry?"

Patriotism

The senseless zeal of nationalistic identification is the biggest stumbling block to our moving forward as a species, as long as there is an unanswering response to the call of anything in the name of "patriotism", we will not see a truly humane world. - Albert Einstein

Keep Walking

Email forward, courtesy Alok Mehta
Whatever you do.... always ..keep walking !!
and remember...
Problem may come from "HAYWARDS 2000 and 5000"
but you must take it as a "ROYAL CHALLENGE"
otherwise people will call you an "OLD MONK"
and stick a "BLACK LABEL" on you.

But you must fight like a "NAPOLEAN"....
Live like a "BAGPIPER"....
Walk like a "JOHNNY WALKER"
Work till "8 pm"
and think like a "DIRECTOR'S SPECIAL" ......

then your life will be like "IMPERIAL BLUE" with perfection of "KINGFISHER".
If you do the above things, you will be the "UB EXPORT"
and then there will be a very good value for your "SIGNATURE" ....

Farewells

"A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends." - Anon

Your element is Fire.

Like fire, you have a hot temper and you can be warm and loving as well and angry and wild.
It all really comes down to what you are feeling. You have a lot of close friends who you are very protective over, and with your temper probably some enemies too. You are not Mr Popular in school since you are your own person and don't want to be forced into behaving this or that way. You are the untamed wild horse, the kind that everyone wants to catch. But you don't want to be tied down for the moment and just keep going with your life. Your will is strong and if you set your mind to do something, you will most likely succeed. But beware, your friends may not always accept your mood-swinging behaviour. Even if you don't mean to be mean, they can still feel hurt. You just need to start thinking some things through before you do them, and not always jump in with so much courage. One day you may be hurt because of that, but then again, your element isn't fire if you start to analyse situations before you act. After all, your nature is to shoot first and ask the questions later.

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Solidarity - Dire Straits

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've watched all your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms.
Dire Straits.

Originally quoted on Secular Rights India

Mother Teresa on Life

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it
Life is a beauty, admire it
Life is bliss, taste it
Life is a dream, realize it
Life is a challenge, meet it
Life is a duty, complete it
Life is a game, play it
Life is costly, care for it
Life is wealth, keep it
Life is love, enjoy it
Life is mystery, know it
Life is a promise, fulfill it
Life is sorrow, overcome it
Life is a song, sing it
Life is a struggle, accept it
Life is a tragedy, confront it
Life is an adventure, dare it
Life is luck, make it
Life is life, FIGHT FOR IT

-- Mother Teresa

William Blake - WHO CAN STAND?

Oh for a voice like Thunder, and a tongue to drown the voice of war,
When the soul is driven to madness,
WHO CAN STAND ?
When the souls of the oppressed fight in the troubled air that rages,
WHO CAN STAND ?
When the whirlwind of fury comes from the throne of GOD,
WHO CAN STAND ?
When the frowns of his countenance drive the nations together,
WHO CAN STAND?
When sin claps his broad wings over the battle, and sails rejoicing in the flood of death,
When the souls are torn to everlasting fire, and fiends of Hell rejoice upon the strain, Oh who can stand?
Oh who has caused this?
Oh who can answer at the throne of God?
The Kings and Nobles of the land have done it,
Hear it not Heaven,
Thy Ministers have done it !

-- William Blake

Sachin - A treat

Beneath the helmet, under that unruly curly hair, inside the cranium, there is something we don't know, something beyond scientific measure. Something that allows him to soar, to roam a territory of sport that, forget us, even those who are gifted enough to play alongside him cannot even fathom. When he goes out to bat, people switch on their television sets and switch off their lives.
--BBC Sports, on Sachin Tendulkar.

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